Deaths (Fatalities)

February 9, 2024

A ‘Mother’ Is Mourned by the Queer New Yorkers She Left Behind

Hundreds gathered in a Greenwich Village church to pay their respects to the transgender activist Cecilia Gentili, who died this week at 52. The strumming of […]
November 14, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Don’t Marry Your Boyfriend’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. The Psychic’s Stare Octobers ago, I crossed a psychic’s door. She examined me, […]
July 11, 2023

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Who I Was Without a Wedding Ring’

Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words. A Portrait of Father and Son Growing up in the 1950s, I was […]
December 10, 2021

‘I Would Give Anything to Hold Their Hands Again’

A husband and wife find a way to talk to their young sons about an unspeakable event. It could have been any January day — the […]
December 26, 2017

The Avalanche of Rock ‘n’ Roll Death

Andre Calilhanna, like countless kids before him, fell hard for rock ‘n’ roll. It was the early 1980s in suburban Maryland and his parents were Middle-Eastern […]
July 28, 2017

Modern Love: During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered

Modern Love By ANDREW RANNELLS I don’t remember his last name. His first name was Brad, which is the perfect name for a relatively faceless memory […]